When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSEWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The river is everywhere.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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